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Archive | November, 2008

monster’s mckelvey dies at 74

27. November 2008

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Andrew McKelvey, the billionaire founder and former chief executive of Monster Worldwide Inc., died early Thanksgiving morning in New York after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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free private beta trials for new hr screening tool

25. November 2008

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HarQen has announced the private beta launch of VoiceScreener, a tool that allows HR reps to create and distribute custom-recorded phone interviews.

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careerbuilder blitzes, monster throws hail mary

24. November 2008

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Both Monster and CareerBuilder, two of the biggest job boards in the nation, have announced that they are purchasing coveted Super Bowl air time.

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taleo’s nightmarish november

24. November 2008

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By Vanessa Dennis - While most people are celebrating the holidays with family and co-workers this month, Taleo, the provider of talent management software, has little reason to rejoice. The company has experienced a steady string of setbacks, beginning with their Q3 financial call and continuing with a bevy of lawsuits that threaten to rattle the core of this globally renowned company. Let's take a look at the timeline of events and hear an expert's advice on what this means for the software giant in the long run.

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new iphone app gets great reviews, but it’ll cost you

24. November 2008

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JobCompass is a new application for the iPhone that claims to be the only application that searches millions of jobs and plots them on a map in relation to your location.

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digital divide controversy revived

24. November 2008

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By Blake Helppie - A few weeks ago Steve Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, blogged about a recent study published by our company, JobApp Network, on how web-only applicant tracking, talent acquisition and hiring management systems may be unwittingly hampering diversity at hourly employers, particularly in retail and restaurants. Rarely have I seen such a torrent of controversy unleashed by what was originally intended to be just another quarterly white paper. Academics were asking questions and bloggers revived a largely dormant “Digital Divide” discussion. I think the last time that the “Digital Divide” generated any real political or economic debate was somewhere around the time that I watched Detroit Rock City in theater (voted the worst movie of 1999 by the other 6 people who actually watched it).

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visualcv takes product one step further

21. November 2008

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VisualCV has announced a new platform called VisualCV Career Connection that connects job seekers and employers for a fee.

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